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Maguindanao death toll:58

Published by Ellen on December 3, 2009

Related activity: There will be an indignation rally on Wednesday (Dec.9) in Mendiola (Chino Roces Avenue), starting at 10:30 a.m.Assembly, in front of UST on España. Organized by the November 23 Movement.

by Romel Regalado Bagares

Cotabato City – The independent forensic team led by Peruvian forensic anthropologist Dr. Jose Pablo Baraybar said yesterday it is “now almost sure that there is a 58th body” that is yet unaccounted for after his team’s discovery of a partial upper left denture with a metal clasp at the crime scene that did not fit any of the remains already recovered.

From ABS-CBN:
The military on Thursday unearthed a large cache of arms and ammunition, enough to supply a brigade-size unit of the military near the mansions of the Ampatuans in Shariff Aguak, capital town of Maguindanao.

Statement of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV

The recent discovery of the large cache of firearms, ammunition and other military armaments at a vacant lot near the Mansion of the Ampatuans in Maguindanao as reported by ABS-CBN and GMA News confirms our claim that, during all this time, the arms and ammunition of warlords and other rogue groups which have wreck havoc in our country are being supplied and sourced from the arsenals and factories of the AFP and the DND.

This corrupt and condemnable practice has not only led to the sacrifice of countless lives of soldiers, law enforcement officials and innocent civilians but has been fueling the endless war in Mindanao and other volatile areas. This was also one of the root causes which impelled us to demonstrate and speak out against the current administration at Oakwood way back in 2003; at Manila Pen two years ago; and whenever we get the chance to be heard.

Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, as Commander-In-Chief, and his anointed former DND Secretary Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro, must be made accountable for all the deaths caused by these guns.

As this developed, Baraybar and his team were set to fly back to Manila yesterday on the advice of their private security consultants who reported that the group was being cased by armed men.

Dr. Baraybar said the dentures belonged to slain Midland Review staff Reynaldo “Bebot” Momay, of Tacurong City Sultan Kudarat, according to his dental records.

A dangerous, unconstitutional decision

Published by Ellen on December 3, 2009

Just pray that with the retirement of Associate Justice Minita Chico-Nazario today, the voting on the motion for reconsideration that the Commission on Elections would be filing on the deplorable Nachura Dec. 1 decision would change.

The vote on the Supreme Court decision penned by Associate Justice Eduardo Nachura declaring as unconstitutional the provisions in the election laws that consider appointed officials resigned once they filed their certificates of candidacy was 8-6.

Those who concurred with Nachura,were Justices Nazario, Renato Corona, Presbitero Velasco, Teresita de Castro, Arturo Brion, Lucas Bersamin, and Mariano del Castillo,

Jalosjos clan eyes control of Zambo Sibugay

Published by Ellen on December 3, 2009

by Joseph Arnel Deliverio Sibugay Express and VERA Files The Court of Appeals, in a dramatic last-minute decision, has ordered Romeo “Jon-Jon” Jalosjos Jr. reinstated…

Divisoria shopping

Published by Ellen on December 2, 2009

Pumunta kami ng aking pamangkin kahapon sa Divisoria para bumili ng mga barong at kimona na bilin ng aking sister-in-law sa Amerika.

Tuwing Pasko daw kasi sa U.S, sa party ng Filipino community, Filipiniana ang kanilang theme. Tiningnan ko sa mga department store and presyo ng mga barong at kimona at nadismaya naman ako sa mahal. Ang pinakamura na barong ay P1,700. Ang mga magaganda halos P3,000. Ang kimona naman, ang pinakamura P800.

First time ko pumunta sa Divisoria para mag-shopping dahil hindi naman ako masyado nagsa-shopping. Tuwang-tuwa ako dahil ang laki talaga ng diperensya ng presyo, Ang nakuha kung mga magagandang barong ay P700 at P800 lang. Ang kimona naman P350. Medyo mahal (P900) ang isa kung napili dahil handmade daw ang burda.

Namili na rin kami ng mga ibang regalo. Kaya, ang dami naming bitbit ng pamangkin ko. Medyo ma-trapik lang.

Abundance of presidential aspirants

Published by Ellen on December 2, 2009

Update: Pulse Asia survey: 79 per cent won’t vote candidate endorsed by Gloria Arroyo

At the end of the filing of certificates of candidacy for the 2010 elections midnight of December 1, 2009, the Commission on Elections has received 99 aspirants for the presidency, 20 for the vice presidency and 158 for a seat in the Senate.

Among those who filed their COV’s on the last day were Lakas-Kampi-CMP bets Gilbert Teodoro and Edu Manzao, Bagumbayan’s Richard Gordon with running mate Bayani Fernando, and Jamby Madrigal, who is running as independent.

Ferdinand Rafanan, head of the Comelec’s law department, they will also prune the list of applicants motu propio by eliminating those considered as nuisance candidates. He expects the number to be cut into half easily.

Outraged

Published by Ellen on December 1, 2009

Please see Makati Business Club statement in comments

I would have been happy to have been proven wrong when I joined those who said that if you allow Gloria Arroyo to stay on until 2010, she will never give up power.

Arroyo will be running for a congressional seat (second district, Pampanga) in the coming 2010 elections. The people see through her desperate plan of holding on to power.

As member of the House of Representatives, she can create a bloc of like-minded congressman who are only after their own selfish interest and push to amend the Constitution that would change the system of government from presidential to parliamentary. She can then aspire to become prime minister and be in power again.

SC: Gov’t execs need not quit after filing CoCs

Published by Ellen on December 1, 2009

Justice Antonio Carpio on SC (Nachura) decision: Disaster waiting to happen

By Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional those provisions in the election laws that consider appointed officials to be resigned once they filed their certificates of candidacy (CoCs), the court spokesperson said.

Deputy court administrator Jose Midas Marquez said the court en banc voted to consider those provisions violative of the equal protection clause under the Constitution.

Unlike elective officials, the appointive officials are mandated by law to resign after they file their CoCs.

Two more Magdalo officers enter politics

Published by Ellen on December 1, 2009

Capt. Dante Langkit is running for governor of Kalinga and former Air Force Lt. Ashley Acedillo is a candidate for representative of the first disctrict of Cebu.

Dante fills up his certificate of candidacy accompanied by his twin brother, Danzel.

Langkit (PMA class ’95), who is detained at Fort Bonifacio, was allowed last week by the Armed Forces of the Philippines to leave his detention cell to file his certificate of candidacy.

Langkit is facing mutiny charges for allegedly planning to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo together with 27 other officers in February 2006 following the expose of the “Hello Garci” tapes which revealed that Arroyo used the military to tamper the results of the 2004 elections to her favor.

Thinking that they could break Langkit’s will, his custodians put him in a solitary confinement for 10 months, the longest that an officer was subjected to such harsh condition.Langkit held firm to his convictions.

‘It’s like Rwanda’: UN expert on Maguindanao massacre

Published by Ellen on November 30, 2009

by Romel Regalado Bagares

COTABATO CITY.–Peruvian forensic anthropologist Dr. Jose Pablo Baraybar didn’t like what he saw when he visited for the first time Sunday the massacre site in Barangay Salman, Ampatuan town.

Take note of the backhoe with the marking 'Province of Maguindanao'

“It reminded me of something—it’s just like Rwanda,” said Dr. Baraybar after spending a few hours in the area in the company of Commission on Human Rights Chair Leila M. De Lima, British forensic investigator Chris Cobb Smith and lawyers from the Center for International Law (Centerlaw).

Baraybar said the “topography of the crime” in Ampatuan town is eerily similar to that he had found as a United Nations expert serving in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Desparada na si Gloria

Published by Ellen on November 30, 2009

Iba-ibang paraan ang sinubukan ni Gloria Arroyo para manatili siya sa kapangyarihan habang buhay.

Nandiyan yung charter change. Ipinasa ng mga tutal niya sa House of representatives. Hindi nakarating sa Senado.

May mga senyales na binalak niya ang martial law. Kaya ipinuwesto niya sa mga strategic na posisyun ang mga nasa PMA Class ’78, kung saan honorary member siya. Binalaan siya ng Amerika.

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